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Got this the other day. Not sure how they got my contact info.Some UAV Business posted:Greetings! I wonder how many people with a bachelors degree are willing to work for so little. If I wanted to make that little I'd get my CPL and fly for a regional airline. this is actually more than typical first year pay
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Elendil004 posted:Guys with commercial grade rigs (ideally high endurance, FPV +monitor support) and valid Passports shoot me a PM. This got lost at the bottom of last page, apologies but this is time sensitive.
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Tindjin posted:poo poo my CC hates me so bad right now.. Just ordered a PA XR-52 to step up my 3D game. Ugh.. I'll post pics when I get it next week. Nice! I really like PA's stuff and the Addiction X is on my list. Did you buy their motor/ESC as well?.
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finished my battery  4s5p - I had enough to do 4s7p, but I think this is fine, especially given the length.
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Hey since you guys are building EXPERIMENTAL FPV QUADS FROM THE FUTURE I have a suggestion for you: Barometers suck and so does lidar. I want a system where I drop a radio source on the ground, and a detector on the flight drone and have it triangulate and do math and poo poo instead of rely on the capricious atmosphere and uneven surface. Also your pay is pretty nice actually but nobody signs "additional duties as assigned" without defining broad and strict limitations. Nobody wants "cleaning the work area at the end of the day" tacked on their contract. Hire a janitor.
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DreadLlama posted:Barometers suck and so does lidar. I want a system where I drop a radio source on the ground, and a detector on the flight drone and have it triangulate and do math and poo poo instead of rely on the capricious atmosphere and uneven surface. What could go wrong? Well, other than the way radio signals bounce off surfaces and forms nulls and false sources and now suddenly the drone thinks that wall over there is really the ground and...
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I've actually seen some ground based gps beacon kinda stuff used in very high end applications. Talks to something on the drone itself and helps increase accuracy for mapping and such. Wish I could find the company again. hilariously expensive though.
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What it's probably doing is differential GPS. When you need extreme (<30cm) accuracy, you get two receivers a distance appart, then you can start canceling out enviromental factors between you and the sattelite constellations, giving you a higher accuracy.
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Apr 27, 2015 05:30
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Can APM handle a second GPS out of the box?
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Cool I was making a battery of my own this weekend. I got the cells from dollar store USB phone chargers(but they were $3! ) and salvaged the charging circuitry. I'm hoping that since they're all wired in parallel that everything will charge ok.  It's going to be a battery handle for a 3D Mobius rig I'm building. 4x 3.7v wired in parallel, then stepped up to 12v for the gimbal controller. Since the IMU recieves 5v and has an output for 3.3v as well, I plan on using one of those lines to power both the mobius boards. Eventually I want to mount it under a quad but for now I'm testing it with rollerblades. 
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DreadLlama posted:Can APM handle a second GPS out of the box? the newest version of arducopter / arduplane should support multiple gps for redundancy. edit: this might be supported only on the pixhawk though. moron izzard fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Apr 27, 2015 |
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MRC48B posted:What it's probably doing is differential GPS. When you need extreme (<30cm) accuracy, you get two receivers a distance appart, then you can start canceling out enviromental factors between you and the sattelite constellations, giving you a higher accuracy. The guys that are doing Lidar survey rigs are using RTK gps. RTK is a little more insane mode of differential, because you are tuning into the carrier wave itself to get a range. Capable receivers are from $2-20k. This gives you about 1cm accuracy horizontally, and 2cm vertically. I use a setup at work, and when I let it sit for 15 minutes I frequently get results around 3mm of accuracy XYZ. Obviously a moving vehicle won't, but it's enough to fly through gaps and what not. But it's also sensitive. What are you going to do when your 40k flying machine loses lock and flies into the ocean?
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at 40k, you better have some other ways of getting home beyond "just gps"
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Nice! I really like PA's stuff and the Addiction X is on my list. Did you buy their motor/ESC as well?. Yea I watched some of the vids and they were going everything with the PA package so I thought it would be a good starting point, I can always upgrade later but this way it's a 'known' setup that will work. I also got their "bling" package with the vortex generators and wing bags etc.., I figure what the heck lets go all out. It should be delivered today. I'll grab a couple pics of the un-boxing.
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Speaking of deliveries, new motor/ESC/props arrived today. Time to pimp my Bixler.
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Beautiful job on this by the way 
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Apr 27, 2015 18:10
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poo poo I was waiting all winter for arrived in late spring so a few weeks ago my Quanum Trifecta was able to fly. Now it's tuning and playing with all the tuning learning what's what - it's my first multirotor. Unless you count the little bitty quad which was little more than a toy for $15 from secret pirate island. The tricopter actually flies and handles fairly similarly other than being way better at not drifting laterally. I'm hoping I can get it moving and handling more like a robot once I dial in the PID tuning but WTF do I know, I've never done this before. How exciting! 
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I decided to try getting into the hobby about two month ago, after catching Flite Test on youtube and watching way, way too much of it. I got myself a Phoenix/DX6i combo and practiced that most nights for about a two weeks; got tired of flying virtual airplanes and got a UXM Radian. Good fun. Don't know how long it'll last until I'm looking for something with a bit more challenge, though.
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Sigma X posted:I decided to try getting into the hobby about two month ago, after catching Flite Test on youtube and watching way, way too much of it. I got myself a Phoenix/DX6i combo and practiced that most nights for about a two weeks; got tired of flying virtual airplanes and got a UXM Radian. Good fun. Don't know how long it'll last until I'm looking for something with a bit more challenge, though. I still enjoy my big Radian, although the challenge now is how long can I keep it up on one engine burst. If you're looking into 4-channel trainer planes, e-flite makes the Apprentice, which has a bunch of neat electronics for easing you into planes with less self-stabilization. (Flite Test review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8H02ZaRjQU)
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I actually just ordered that this weekend after agonizing over the sport cub s and the delta Ray. The size made it more appealing (also selling some extra stuff last week). Horizon hobby has the best deal I think I considered getting a bixler and a lemon rx stabilizer or flight controller, but they seem to be only international warehouse only at the moment moron izzard fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Apr 28, 2015 |
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Golluk posted:Speaking of deliveries, new motor/ESC/props arrived today. Time to pimp my Bixler. What did you go with? I've got a Bix3 sitting in box waiting for me to make a decision on a motor..
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ease posted:The guys that are doing Lidar survey rigs are using RTK gps. RTK is a little more insane mode of differential, because you are tuning into the carrier wave itself to get a range. Capable receivers are from $2-20k. This gives you about 1cm accuracy horizontally, and 2cm vertically. I use a setup at work, and when I let it sit for 15 minutes I frequently get results around 3mm of accuracy XYZ. Obviously a moving vehicle won't, but it's enough to fly through gaps and what not. But it's also sensitive. What are you going to do when your 40k flying machine loses lock and flies into the ocean? Thanks. That sounds like a technology to keep an eye on for a while. Do you know roughly how fast the prices are coming down? A Yolo Wizard posted:the newest version of arducopter / arduplane should support multiple gps for redundancy.
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Some of my FPV footage from a year ago was featured on the Discovery Channel Canada show Daily Planet. They used my footage in a story about wind turbines and how they affect birds. Pretty sweet! The story with my footage starts at 22:50 on the video on their front page here: http://www.discovery.ca/dailyplanet My original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP9JH-MEmp8
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So I know the inspire camera pops off, can you swap in something like a thermal unit?
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Elendil004 posted:Anyone had hands on with S900 or S1000? Lots of time on S900's. What do you need to know?
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Wojcigitty posted:Lots of time on S900's. What do you need to know? Would you get one again given the choice? Any payload snafus? I know the 1000 will carry more but is the 900 under/over powered? Ease of swapping different cameras in and out? gimbal thoughts? Kind of tossing around either a S900/S1000 or Inspire.
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I've been flying a Hubsan X4 version for a couple of months now, and I want to build a bigger 450 quad. I picked up a cheap Neewer body from Amazon, but I'd love advice on other parts. I'm thinking a Naze32 Full FC - I want to be able to control this thing via altimeter and GPS, rather than a typical RC controller, but I'm not sure what motors and ESCs to get. Also, any advice for a first build?
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a foolish pianist posted:I've been flying a Hubsan X4 version for a couple of months now, and I want to build a bigger 450 quad. I picked up a cheap Neewer body from Amazon, but I'd love advice on other parts. I'm thinking a Naze32 Full FC - I want to be able to control this thing via altimeter and GPS, rather than a typical RC controller, but I'm not sure what motors and ESCs to get. Also, any advice for a first build? I posted an overview of the general part list you'll need a page or so ago: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3386779&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=108#post444411276 I went with the Flamewheel F450 kit and the Naza-M V2, pretty much entirely DJI parts otherwise as well. If you got this Neweer body, you can follow any of the F450 guides out there as it's a 100% copy of DJI's F450.
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Yep, same exact frame. Thanks! I tried clicking around early pages in this thread, and there were still links to waffleimages. I kinda gave up on going through the whole thing.
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Tindjin posted:What did you go with? I've got a Bix3 sitting in box waiting for me to make a decision on a motor.. Turnigy Aerodrive SK3 2836 1040kv, Spinning an APC 8x6e prop, with a Plush 40A ESC. The motor was a direct fit on the stock mount. I tried a 9x4.7 prop as well, but it was just clipping the fuselage. It would have to be extended out another 2", or up 1/2" to clear. Full throttle on a battery at 11.3v no load, was 18.7 amps. I haven't actually gotten it up in the air yet to find a good cruise throttle. Once I do, I can check the amp pull on that. Another guy was cruising at something like 3-4 amps though, albeit on a 4s (which I have coming). Definitely quieter than the 6x4 on a 2826 2200kv motor, though less top end (it was pulling 24 amps at full). Just need to swap out the MinimOSD, get that updated to the latest, and it should be good for a test flight. MinimOSD arrived, and I believe the 4s 4Ah battery to :O Golluk fucked around with this message at 21:31 on May 1, 2015 |
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Vitamin J posted:Some of my FPV footage from a year ago was featured on the Discovery Channel Canada show Daily Planet. They used my footage in a story about wind turbines and how they affect birds. Pretty sweet! Awesome man. Congrats.
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Elendil004 posted:Would you get one again given the choice? Any payload snafus? I know the 1000 will carry more but is the 900 under/over powered? Ease of swapping different cameras in and out? gimbal thoughts? It depends a lot on what you want to do. The S900 is very happy to carry 3 lbs or so with a 16,000 mah battery for a safe 12-15 minute flight in my experience. It mounts easily to all of the higher end DJI gimbals like the Z15, but needs an adapter plate for the H3 if you want to use that. The Inspire is easier to get in the air and will get you great footage. If you have a more specific camera in mind or want to use a non-DJI FC then the S900 is the way to go.
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Mister Sinewave posted:Beautiful job on this by the way Thanks man:) I'm redesigning the body section to be more streamlined. I really wasn't happy with the original geometry and just settled on a shape where everything fit. It's more like a vision2 cam now, but 3D.   bring back old gbs fucked around with this message at 18:57 on May 2, 2015 |
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Are self-tightening propellors ala: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/4PC-9443-Sel...=item2ee033655e well-regarded? My flight drone just fell out of the sky on account of one of the props came loose mid flight. I'm glad all those trees were there to brake its fall. With toy sized flight drones props coming loose wasn't a thing I had to think about. I checked the nuts on the 3 that were still on and they were loose, too. Are there any other issues that crop-up with the 350 sized quads that aren't common among the smaller ones? (GPS assisted flight is awesome. I still can't get over how I can just park it mid-air and have it stay there. But there's not much the autopilot can do when a prop flies off). But anyways, self-tightening propellors. Yay or nay?
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DreadLlama posted:Are self-tightening propellors ala: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/4PC-9443-Sel...=item2ee033655e well-regarded? My flight drone just fell out of the sky on account of one of the props came loose mid flight. I'm glad all those trees were there to brake its fall. With toy sized flight drones props coming loose wasn't a thing I had to think about. I checked the nuts on the 3 that were still on and they were loose, too. Are there any other issues that crop-up with the 350 sized quads that aren't common among the smaller ones? (GPS assisted flight is awesome. I still can't get over how I can just park it mid-air and have it stay there. But there's not much the autopilot can do when a prop flies off). Yes they are fine.
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So we were out rolling the field and getting the lawnmower ready for the flying season. One guy got a bit too close to the wet part of the field and sunk the steam roller up to the axles. Needed a rather large bulldozer to break it free. Made for a nice FPV obstacle. Jump to around 1:20 to see the best part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1h4t1bPYpU
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Finally tried out the SK3 2836 1040kv 8x6E combo. First flight was on 3S 3Ah. It was.... Lethargic. It worked, but I wasn't really happy with it. So I took out the balance weight, and tossed in the bigger 4S 4Ah. It flew great, cruised around at 5.5 amps. Lots of climbing power at 9.5 amps. Looks like I should be able to get 40+ minutes out of it. Even with the throttle off, it had a very nice glide to it. Total weight is at 1.3Kg. I don't think I'll be putting the 3S back in. http://imgur.com/a/K7n47
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